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Simple church. As a new young pastor I’m looking for something simple. Need something simple. Many things to do during the week and one can forget that the message Jesus gave was simple. Love your neighbor as yourself. Simple Church is a new book that a friend said that the staff he was serving with was reading through. Just got [...]
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Today, I spent some time with a wonderful guy and church member named Jimmy. Jimmy has cancer. It’s a horrible cancer. His body is filled with tumors. This last year has been difficult in that the doctors can’t stop the cancer. Nothing seems to work. Radiation and chemo haven’t worked. He began hospice a few weeks [...]
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new nooma premiere here: http://www.myspace.com/NOOMAmyspace to view for a day.
ht: Chris
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According to East Coast time, I’m officially 39 years old…AGHHHH….praise you Lord for another year of life and the blessings of being a follower of Jesus. Thank you for loving me in spite of my “stuff…
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When Jesus sends us out into the world, he sends us to places that either bring us joy or places where we will be challenged to grow in our faith. After finishing a week of vacation Bible school, I can’t help but hear the words of Jesus, “as the father sends me, I also send [...]
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Blogging stinks right now. Not much happening. Went to Gilbert Arizona for a few days with the family. Nice little community there in Gilbert AZ. Gilbert has a few things I’m liking that California needs to get quickly…and that we loved.
1. lifetime fitness (a very cool gym with more televisions than best buy to work [...]
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Kids and gaming. One word…Ughhhh
My gaming as a kid was asteroids and pac-man at a local 7-11 in Hollywood in 1981. If you wanted to play a game, it cost you a quarter.
I will be charging now as the kiddlings enter the age of the need to play 24 hours a day…
Twenty Five Cents…in 1981????
$5.00 [...]
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It’s hotter than a poptart…
Hourly Forecast more details
3pm
111°F
Feels Like
105°F
6pm
104°F
Feels Like
98°F
9pm
92°F
Feels Like
87°F
12am
86°F
Feels Like
81°F
3am
81°F
Feels Like
78°F
6am
80°F
Feels Like
78°F
Today
Tonight
Mostly Sunny
High
112°FPrecip
0%
Wind:
WSW 22 mph
Max. Humidity:
8%
UV Index:
10+ Extreme
Sunrise:
5:46 AM PT
Avg. High:
96°F
Record High:
111°F (1991)
Mostly Clear
Overnight Low
77°FPrecip
0%
Wind:
SW 17 mph
Max. Humidity:
19%
Sunset:
8:09 PM PT
Avg. Low:
64°F
Record Low:
43°F (1948)
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Young pastor I am. Wet behind the ears I am. I was left speechless today after a kind church member’s child helped pass some Vacation Bible School fliers out today at a park to a bunch of kids. When the child walked up to the kids to tell them about our VBS week, the child [...]
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We have a time in our service at church where we hear prayers of concern or praise. Let me take you back to our church this morning for this little bit of coolness…
Me: “Are there other prayers of praise or concern?”
Child 1 raising hand: “I’m going to Tahoe.” (Going with family member)
Child 2 [...]
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